So, i have breast cancer...

Hi Leila,

Sorry to hear you've been diagnosed. With the surgery waiting time your surgeon or their receptionist will be able to give you an indication of how long the waiting period is for your surgery. Because it is breast cancer you will not have an incredibly long wait. As a lot of surgeons have private and public lists it will depend on which hospital you are being sent to and how full the surgeons list is for that hospital and how often they operate there with their public list. When I talked to my surgeon (who has a public list fortnightly at the hospital I was going to) she said that if I had been able to see her earlier in that week she would have operated on me the following day because she had an opening. As it was I then had a four week wait for surgery as her public list was full for the following fortnight. Rest assured that if you need to be fitted in more urgently they will do it.

Let us know how your getting on. Take care. Xx Cath